Thursday, August 16, 2012

GW's Cummins Legal History Research Grant

[We have the following from The Burns Brief, the blog of the GW Law Library.]

GW Law is pleased to invite applications for the Richard & Diane Cummins Legal History Research Grant for 2013. The Cummins Grant provides a stipend of $10,000 to support short-term
historical research using Special Collections at GW’s Jacob Burns Law
Library, which is noted for its continental historical legal
collections, especially its French Collection. Special Collections also
is distinguished by its holdings in Roman and canon law, church-state
relations, international law, and its many incunabula. The grant is
awarded to one doctoral, LL.M., or S.J.D. candidate; postdoctoral
researcher; faculty member; or independent scholar. The successful
candidate may come from a variety of disciplines, including, but not
limited to, law, history, religion, philosophy, or bibliography. The deadline for applications is October 15, 2012. More.

[The folks at the Burns Law Library would also like you to know that they have recently acquired a fifteenth-century manuscript, Statuta Placentiae. It "comprises
the civil and criminal laws of the northern Italian province of
Piacenza, dating to the reign of Galeazzo Visconti I, vice-duke of
Milan, who issued the statutes in the 1320s." A page from it appears above.]